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When the masked man appeared, the situation was settled in an instant.
That’s right, there’s a slight difference between them, so I’d be tempted to jump in, but this was almost the level of an adult male and a newborn baby, so the gap was huge.
The masked man approached Yoon Sang-deok and said,
“Do you know what a follow-up means?”
“of course. Hehe.”
With those words, the man in the mask walked towards the wooded forest and disappeared from sight.
“phew.”
When the Ssangmun Guildmaster put on the gear, Yoon Sang-deok felt the wall.
The absolute power gap that denies them all, no matter how many and no matter how good schemes are devised.
But the appearance of another being who lightly crushes the power gap.
Even the existence of a person serving the president like himself, can it be more reassuring than this?
“It’s also the president.”
At that time, the Ssangmun Guildmaster who threw off all the equipment came up to Yoon Sang-deok and said,
“… What do you want us to do?”
The two-door guild leader who succumbed to the insurmountable power gap.
But his expression was surprisingly calm.
“If you were going to kill us all, it wouldn’t have ended like this, would it?”
At that, Yoon Sang-deok said with a confident expression.
“There is one thing I need to make sure of first.”
“Say it.”
“Let’s get the name straight. Because I’m a little sensitive to respectful words. I use respectful language, so why do you keep using that side?”
“Hmm… .”
“Because I am a normal person? But I’m the president’s spokesperson. Wouldn’t it be better for each other to have a minimum of courtesy?”
Then the Ssangmun guild leader, who was silent for a while, said:
“good.”
“OK. There is only one thing I ask of the Ssangmun Guild.”
What the masked man did was to draw a line thoroughly to minimize the connection.
For that reason, didn’t Yoon Sang-deok want to subdue the Ssangmun Guild on his own?
Of course, at the end of the day, I borrowed the power of a man, but that was a force majeure situation.
“Follow my instructions. Of course, I will not make unreasonable demands.”
“What do I and the Ssangmun Guild get in return?”
“A definite reward. Because our organization has one reward and one punishment for sure. and… .”
Yoon Sang-deok raised the corners of his mouth and said.
“Absolute protection.”
“That’s what I like the most.”
The Ssangmun guild leader looked down at his hand and said.
“I thought that if I had all the equipment, I would be able to do it even with a top-notch hunter, but this time I realized just how big of a mistake it was. No way… I couldn’t even imagine that I could win. So I like it. The protection of such a strong person is the best gift for people like me.”
“I’m glad you liked it.”
“In that sense, I want to ask you something.”
Ssangmun guild leader whispered to Yoon Sang-deok.
“Are you the president, CEO Jeong In-soo?”
‘I thought this question would come up.’
The only ones who can mobilize a hunter of this size alone are the development of Jeongin and the top guilds.
And among them, isn’t Jeong In-soo the person who suits the title of president the most?
“That masked man earlier. Judging from his skills, he’s not a normal person, and maybe Lee Jae-jin, the guild leader?”
But the Ssangmun guild leader suddenly lost his confidence and said:
“… No. Am I overestimating myself? It’s such a big deal that you’ve suppressed me like that. Lee Jae-jin, guild leader or just a guild member?”
Hearing the words of the Ssangmun Guild leader, Yoon Sang-deok thought.
‘How can I break the link as much as possible?’
After thinking for a while, Yoon Sang-deok said.
“Have you seen his skills before?”
“Yes.”
“Someone like that… .”
Yoon Sang-deok said with a meaningful expression.
“Would you like to work under an ordinary person like Jung In-soo, even wearing a mask? And under someone with far less skill? The guild leader is also a hunter, so you know it well.”
At that, the Ssangmun guild leader said with a surprised expression.
“Maybe that means… Is the president a hunter too? Are you saying that he’s a more powerful hunter than him?”
“Hint here.”
One of the tricks is to make them fall into your imagination even though you don’t have to see them in person anyway.
“The president hates revealing himself, so let’s stop asking questions. Besides, that’s what’s important right now, isn’t it? The point is that we can mobilize more than a hundred hunters, and that our organization has talented people like him. In that sense, it is the first instruction.”
Yoon Sang-deok said with a smile.
“Do the same thing you’ve been doing.”
“… same?”
“The same as before, we are trying to keep the foreign guilds and us in check and pretend to compete with each other for the business rights of Jeongin Resort. Oh, just in case, did you mention Jung In-soo earlier? Is it the will of Jeong In-soo that the Ssangmun Guild entered the resort?”
The Ssangmun guild leader nodded and said.
“Actually, we proposed and Jung In-soo accepted it… It should be like that.”
“okay? Hmm… .”
Yoon Sang-deok, who had been thinking for a while, said with his eyes shining.
“Then how about doing this? After quarreling with each other, the two-door guild finally absorbs us.”
“… Yes?”
The point of the link is how you appear to others, not the truth.
If that’s the case, conversely, it’s as if the Ssangmun Guild absorbed all the rest and made it look peaceful.
“Jung In-soo will be satisfied that the Ssangmun Guild has conquered the resort, and it’s good that we covered Jeong In-soo’s eyes. Isn’t this really worth it? haha.”
* * *
“Ohh.”
After receiving Yoon Sang-deok’s report, I said with a smile.
“I like that.”
With the Ssangmun Guild as the face of the guild, it takes the form of being controlled by Yoon Sang-deok from behind.
Isn’t it bad?
After all, the Ssangmun Guildmaster who felt the difference in power wouldn’t be able to betray him recklessly.
– So, shall we proceed?
“Do by that way.”
At that time, Yoon Sang-deok hesitated for a moment and said,
– But I… The masked man said that the president was satisfied, but maybe he just made me worry… .
I said with a smirk.
“It’s really good.”
Yoon Sang-deok was brought to the fore, but Hunter eventually spoke with power.
Even if they were defeated in the war by numbers, the Ssangmun Guild could not easily overcome defeat by an organization whose individual skills were lower than theirs and even the leader was an ordinary person.
So it was Lee Jae-jin who placed it for the finale.
Originally, Yoon Sang-deok mobilized hunters to show off the strength of the organization and had Lee Jae-jin as an assistant to empower Yoon Sang-deok.
But unexpectedly, the Ssangmun Guildmaster brought the dungeon equipment, and thanks to that, Jaejin Lee appeared early, but in the end, this is not bad.
“That was good enough. In particular, I commend you for using the light bomb.”
– Go, thank you!
“Now, carry the Ssangmun Guild on your back and attract foreign hunters on a large scale. Our ultimate goal is a large group of hunters made up of foreigners. Afterwards, Mr. Yoon Sang-deok will only manage and make the foreign hunters who have suffered from us mass-produce victims just like themselves.”
Yoon Sang-deok said in a confident voice at my words.
– Don’t worry about that. Even if it wasn’t, when I saw the taste of foreign people’s money, I was terrified of everything.
“good. Then, have a good time at work.”
After finishing the call, I said to Jaejin Lee, who was sitting in front of me.
“Good work.”
Jaejin Lee lowered his head and said.
“It didn’t matter.”
“It’s nothing.”
No matter how level 3 it was, it was no big deal to subdue a hunter armed with equipment that cost a lot of money with one hand.
“It really is. It was much weaker than I expected.”
Jae-Jin Lee, who absorbed all actives and a huge amount of passives for infinite skill shooting, was a monster.
A monster among monsters that no other hunter in existence can face.
“Hmm… .”
Over the years, I have grown up paying attention to everything.
However, I feel it once again through competition with in-person groups and this incident.
The power I have has already reached a considerable level.
‘… Had I been too passive?’
taken from noblemt l
My basic plan is to induce conflict between the government and the guild and to get the maximum benefit from the conflict.
But, wouldn’t the profit be maximized if we take the side of one side and completely crush the other, rather than pursuing the path of a third party?
Not just in terms of money, but in terms of influence.
If I really have to do that, my choice is to unconditionally favor Hunter and press the government down.
The reason is simple.
The government has an expiration date called tenure, but Hunters don’t.
lust is the same
The way I came to the front and spearheaded everything.
But then I shook my head and thought.
‘no. I can’t.’
The reason I have grown up without any problems is because I have taken a wait-and-see attitude, thoroughly as a helper and as a third person.
But if I go directly to the front, the story is different.
Until then, if it was me and Jeongin development that I had avoided because it was a pain in the ass to touch, from then on, they would regard me as a real threat.
‘The route so far is maintained.’
It pretends to be a third person and controls everything from behind.
But unlike before, it moves more radically, faster, and more bluntly.
“Jaejin.”
“Yes, sir.”
“How many hunters are in the Jungin Guild?”
“A total of 80 people.”
Unlike other guilds that are busy with inflating their size, I disbanded the 2nd Army of the Jeongin Guild, handed over the role to the academy, and filled the Jeongin Guild with only proven and reliable talents.
“Shall we grow a little bigger now? Like other guilds?”
If the purpose of recruiting the Jungin Guild 2nd group was to train first-team preliminary candidates, this expansion was really to make the Jungin Guild like a giant guild from a previous life.
I will show it to the guilds.
This is a gigantic guild, and this is the power of a gigantic guild.
It gives them a future to pursue.
“Just give the order. I will follow you.”
“Okay then, let’s grow a little bigger.”
The academy has completely established itself and has become a place for talent recruitment, so now it’s time to take advantage of it.
“Academy talents are sucked in at random. Instead, just enough so that complaints from other guilds do not accumulate.”
“All right. I will instruct you that way.”
In the early days, I ran around and threatened the hunters, but now the Snow White Organization has entered the stage of self-growth.
Yoon Sang-deok, who organizes foreign hunters by using the Ssangmun Guild as his face, and the Jung-in Guild, a giant guild that will unite all of them.
When all of this is complete, what else do I have to fear?
I said with a smile.
“Come on, let’s move.”
* * *
It has been over a year since Kim Kang-gyun took office as president.
President Kim Kang-gyun, who started with an aura of shouting for control of the hunter.
However, the result was the complete opposite.
From taxes to watchmen, from returning equipment to skill registration.
All possible means and methods were used, but the results were all the worst.
When a guard is attached, the situation where the guards are stuck with the guild is caught every day, and even if the added tax is raised, it is meaningless to smuggle through the guard.
At this point, the watchdog system itself must be repaired or abolished, but the current government can’t even do this because the watcher is the only way the government can manage and supervise the guilds inside the dungeon.
Returning the equipment seemed to be working at first, but for the general public, the hunter had no equipment or not, as the threat was the same, so it had no meaning.
Even more skills are unlocked, crimes caused by skills such as invisibility are increasing, and the skills of the hunters are also getting higher and higher.
The skill registration system was also ineffective because the guilds came out uncooperatively.
“shit… .”
When the situation became like this, the people who had expectations for Kim Kang-gyun gradually gave up their expectations, and in just one year, the approval rating for Kim Kang-gyun decreased to two-thirds.
“How the hell did you do this… .”
At that time, Chief of Staff Cho Man-cheol said.
“No matter what happens, it is the principle of this world that someone benefits. And there’s a good chance that the person who has benefited the most from that will be in charge of everything.”
“What do you mean?”
Jo Man-cheol handed the documents to Kim Kang-gyun and said.
“This is the recent development of Jeongin.”
“Development of people… .”
While Kim Kang-gyun checked the documents, Jo Man-cheol continued to speak.
“Since the resort opened a few months ago, the development of Jeongin has accelerated. We are increasing the number of Jeongin guilds, aggressively building forward bases, and sucking in hunters indiscriminately. Not only that.”
Jo Man-cheol said with a firm expression.
“Black market. Guilds are now bribing guards for tax evasion, then disposing of the materials they brought from the dungeon as if they were stolen from the black market. Regardless of whether it’s legal or illegal. To pay tax, even if the unit price is a little cheaper, they think it is more profitable to sell them on the black market. Thanks to this, the size of the black market in Dangjin has grown rapidly in recent years. now… To the extent that I can’t even dare to touch it.”
Kim Kang-gyun said with a long exclamation.
“Hey, the watchman system.”
The watchman system was modified after hearing Insoo Jung’s suggestion.
However, I had no idea that the guards would be tainted by the guilds so quickly and commit these illegalities.
There are even too many such guards to even know exactly how many and who they are.
“Isn’t it supposed to be abolished now?”
Of course, he wasn’t just playing with Kim Kang-gyun.
Kim Kang-gyun, who worked hard on his own, such as changing all the guards or finding a hunter who took an unfair advantage by conducting an internal investigation.
However, no matter how much the state hunter is rotten, no matter how much water is changed, the same thing is repeated over and over again, even if the undue gain is recovered through internal investigation.
Kim Kang-gyun’s common sense cannot comprehend that an organization that has only been established for a few years decays so quickly.
“Did I not just tell you? If you look at who has benefited, you will see the culprit. I’ve been thinking about it before, but now I’m somewhat confident. There are a lot of hunters that Jeong In-soo put into the national hunters. And because of their existence, Jung In-soo’s black market in Dangjin grew even more.”
Kim Kang-gyun said, grinding his teeth.
“Jung In-soo… .”
Truly a scumbag-like existence.
It is burdensome to touch it, and to leave it alone is corrosive to society.
Before that, there were cases in which the government took advantage of Jeong In-soo, so they had no choice but to let it go.
“Maybe the Hanmu Guild is also Jung In-soo’s nemesis.”
“Are you talking about the Hanmu Guild?”
The strongest hand the government has, led by Guild Leader Kim Woong.
In a situation where even such a guild could not be relieved, Kim Kang-gyun only sighed.
“Actually, it was Jeong In-soo who recommended the Hanmu Guild.”
Kim Kang-gyun, who completed a rough understanding of the situation through a meeting with Jo Man-cheol.
“Guilds are also guilds, but the development and number of people involved is a big problem. However… .”
Kim Kang-gyun bit his lip and said.
“If we touch Jung In-soo prematurely, we will face a headwind.”
A person who secretly delivers a skill stone to Kim Kang-gyun to manipulate the case, and knows the whole story.
In addition, Jung In-soo runs a secret VIP social organization through an underground arena and is connected to all kinds of high-level people as an investment company.
The development of Jeongin now occupies an indispensable place in the manufacturing industry as it is now working together with the Daein group in the logistics business.
“you’re right. It was too big to come and touch. To a level that is absolutely impossible to cut out. But it is not without a way.”
Jo Man-cheol said with his eyes shining.
“Now now. Defeat the barbarians with barbarians. One of the driving forces behind the development of Jung-in to this point is that In-su Jeong has benefited from a neutral position between us and the guilds. So we’re going to change this composition.”
“A composition?”
“It’s not about us and the guild, it’s about inducing conflict between the guilds and the development of Jeongin. We’re going back to the bystander position. If this is the case, from then on, it is literally a breeze. You can secretly support the development of Jeong-in and check the guilds, or you can push the guilds outright and help them escape the influence of the development of Jeong-in. Even if all of this fails, we have no political burden to bear.”
Kim Kang-gyun said with an interesting expression.
“it… I like it. Keep going.”
“Once the rumors about Jungin’s development… .”